I am usually a pretty big fan of Human Playback.  It really does add some great nuance for very little work, percussion playback not withstanding.  One area that needs some clarification on the part of the programmer is how HP handles fermatas.  The real issue arises in a document that has fermatas that are not placed on the cadence.   There are a series of settings that affect Human Playback, but are not contained in the Human Playback Settins Window.  And there is one setting in particular that affects how Human Playback performs, or doesn’t perform, fermatas.

That setting is called Interpret Harmonic Cadences and it is only found in the Human Playback Custom Style Window.

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This error looks like it is specifically linked to bug in Microsoft’s Cumulative Security Update for Windows, which causes errors in memory management when using Java.

There is no “fix”, but I do think that there is a way around the issue.

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There is an issue that causes a crash within Finale 2008 on Vista in regards to articulations that draw vertically, specifically the Rolled Chord Articulation. Adding this articulation to your score will cause a hard crash as soon as you choose to save the document.

There is no fix for the issue at this time, but there is a work-around.

Follow these steps to add the rolled chord articulation into your score without crashing.

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This is a confirmed Vista Windows issue with tech support, but there appears to be a fix.

It looks like completing a compact installation of Finale (not Garritan) will reinstall the necessary files to allow the A update to take.

Just pop your Finale 2008 disc in your drive, and uncheck everything but Finale. Install.

If this fails, try uninstalling and reinstalling Finale completely and then reapplying the update.

Since playback issues and VST/AU seem to go hand in hand, I decided to just write up a quick post detailing one way to eliminate extraneous memory waste.

The Kontakt Player 2 is a memory hog. Had to be said.

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The update is now available here!

This would seem like a fairly straight forward topic, but I actually receive a lot of questions about setting the actual on screen page size within Finale.  The reason there is such confusion is that there are three different areas within the Finale program that can control page size - well, three different areas that seem like they should control page size.

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It appears that an update was released for the Mac only, but was taken down from the website.

I called into tech support and they verified that they had found an issue with the installer and removed the update immediately to fix the issue.

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